If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
To delay justice, is injustice.
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
